Lower Deer Creek Cemetery in Iowa - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Get directions Johnson County, Iowa, USA

Coordinates: 41.53810, -91.79860
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The family of Daniel P and Susanna (Miller) Guengerich, along with another family and a single man, were the first Amish to settle west of the Mississippi in 1846. Their one-year-old daughter, Christena, died that same year and was buried near the log cabin that stood outside the presently existing Lower Deer Creek Cemetery. Hers was the first Amish burial in Johnson County, Iowa. The location of her grave site is not known because the cemetery was established in 1865 when John Schlabaugh was the first to be buried in the cemetery proper. This cemetery is used largely by the Mennonite Lower Deer Creek Congregation. It is located 1/2 mile west and 1/4 mile south of the church house, Section #29 in Washington Township, Johnson County, Iowa. Numbering begins at the northwest corner of the cemetery,rows from west to east. Plats are numbered from the north side running south.